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Nvidia Physx Technology Now Integrated Into Trinigy Vision Engine 7 For Trinigy: For NVIDIA: Trinigy Headquarters NVIDIA Corporation Felix Röken Bryan Del Rizzo General Manager … Tel.: +49-(0)7121-986-993 Tel: (408) 486-2772 Fax: +49-(0)7121-986-994 … Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] World Wide Web: www.trinigy.net World Wide Web: www.nvidia.com FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NVIDIA PHYSX TECHNOLOGY NOW INTEGRATED INTO TRINIGY VISION ENGINE 7 NVIDIA PhysX Technology Becomes Integral Part of Trinigy Vision Game Engine SDK Eningen/Germany, Santa Clara/USA, March 25th, 2009: Trinigy, a leading provider of 3D Game Engines with offices in Germany and Austin, TX, USA, and NVIDIA Corp., the world leader in visual computing technologies headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, USA today announced that Trinigy is now providing fully-fledged, out-of-the-box, multi-platform integration with NVIDIA® PhysX™ technology for licensees of the company’s latest Vision Engine 7. The Trinigy Vision Engine 7 is one of the world’s most advanced technologies for professional game development. Currently in use in numerous commercial game productions all over the world, by well-known companies such as Ubisoft, Firefly, Take 2, Neowiz, Dreamcatcher, Spellbound and others, the Vision Engine has proven its versatility for use in a multitude of game genres, including real-time strategy, racing, first person shooters, role-playing games and massively multiplayer online (MMO) games. In the scope of this agreement, Trinigy Vision Engine licensees will gain access to NVIDIA PhysX™ technology for PC, Xbox360™, PLAYSTATION®3 and Nintendo Wii™ as an integral part of the Vision SDK license at no additional charge. Furthermore, NVIDIA PhysX technology will be integrated directly into future versions of the Vision Engine. With NVIDIA PhysX technology, developers can incorporate effects such as rigid body dynamics, collision detection, and cloth simulation that dramatically change the way the games are played and how the on-screen stories unfold, and then accelerate those effects using the processing power of any CUDA general purpose parallel computing processor, including NVIDIA GeForce GPUs. “Most of our customers have been choosing NVIDIA PhysX technology for adding life-like physics to their games,” said Dag Frommhold, Managing Partner at Trinigy. “Thus, we are pleased that our licensees will now be able to utilize state-of-the-art physics technology for PCs and consoles alike.” © 2009 by Trinigy GmbH. “Trinigy” is a registered trademark. All other products, company names, and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. For Trinigy: For NVIDIA: Trinigy Headquarters NVIDIA Corporation Felix Röken Bryan Del Rizzo General Manager … Tel.: +49-(0)7121-986-993 Tel: (408) 486-2772 Fax: +49-(0)7121-986-994 … Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] World Wide Web: www.trinigy.net World Wide Web: www.nvidia.com “NVIDIA has a great and long partnership with Trinigy starting way back in 2001”, added Tony Tamasi, Senior Vice President of Content and Technology at NVIDIA. “The combination of PhysX with the Vision Engine will give developers a unique, compelling, and innovative platform on which to create the world’s most popular games.” *** About Trinigy Trinigy is an independent company focusing on the development of advanced 3D graphics technology with its headquarters based in Southern Germany and offices in Austin, TX (USA). In the field of 3D game engines, Trinigy is one of the world's leading companies. Trinigy’s Vision Engine 7 is currently available for PC (DX9, DX10), Xbox360™, PLAYSTATION®3, Nintendo Wii™, XBLA™, PSN™ and WiiWare™. For more information about the Trinigy Vision Engine, please visit: www.trinigy.net. About NVIDIA NVIDIA (Nasdaq: NVDA) is the world leader in visual computing technologies and the inventor of the GPU, a high-performance processor which generates breathtaking, interactive graphics on workstations, personal computers, game consoles, and mobile devices. NVIDIA serves the entertainment and consumer market with its GeForce® products, the professional design and visualization market with its Quadro® products, and the high-performance computing market with its Tesla™ products. NVIDIA is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. and has offices throughout Asia, Europe, and the Americas. For more information about NVIDIA PhysX technology, please visit www.nvidia.com. *** end of news *** © 2009 by Trinigy GmbH. “Trinigy” is a registered trademark. All other products, company names, and logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. .
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